For Hub, SAML support lets you use a Hub service as the Identity Provider (IdP) for your web-based applications and as the authentication and authorization manager. When you configure Hub as the IdP for a service provider, your users can log into this service with their credentials in Hub or any other authentication module.

SAML support also enables single-sign-on. When a user logs into one of the services that is connected to Hub, they are logged into all connected services.

General Configuration

To use Hub as SAML IdP for your web-service, you need to perform three steps: